EP2144394A2 - Station de base d'attribution de bande passante et procédé d'attribution de bande passante montante utilisant SDMA - Google Patents

Station de base d'attribution de bande passante et procédé d'attribution de bande passante montante utilisant SDMA Download PDF

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EP2144394A2
EP2144394A2 EP09164567A EP09164567A EP2144394A2 EP 2144394 A2 EP2144394 A2 EP 2144394A2 EP 09164567 A EP09164567 A EP 09164567A EP 09164567 A EP09164567 A EP 09164567A EP 2144394 A2 EP2144394 A2 EP 2144394A2
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  • Some embodiments pertain to bandwidth allocation in wireless access networks. Some embodiments pertain to uplink bandwidth requests and uplink bandwidth request ranging in broadband wireless access networks, such as WiMax networks.
  • bandwidth requests by subscriber stations consume a large amount of overhead and collisions of simultaneously submitted requests cause an increase in latency.
  • apparatus and methods that reduce the amount of overhead for bandwidth requests, and apparatus and methods that reduce the latency caused by collisions of simultaneously submitted bandwidth requests.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a SDMA wireless access network in accordance with some embodiments.
  • Network 100 includes base station 102 and one or more subscriber stations (SS) 104.
  • base station 102 communicates with subscriber stations 104 by transmitting within downlink (DL) subframes 107 and subscriber stations 104 communicate with base station 102 by transmitting within uplink (UL) subframes 109.
  • Base station 102 may include one or more maps in downlink subframes 107 to indicate the particular time and frequency resource that each subscriber station 104 may receive information within the current downlink subframe and the particular time and frequency resource that each subscriber station 104 may transmit information within a next uplink subframe.
  • Base station 102 may include, among other things, physical (PHY) layer circuitry 112 to communicate signals with subscriber stations 104, and signal processing circuitry (SPC) 114 to processes the signals received from subscriber stations 104 and to process signals for transmission to subscriber stations 104.
  • physical layer circuitry 112 may be configured to receive orthogonal sequences over a bandwidth request contention channel from subscriber stations 104.
  • Signal processing circuitry 114 may detect and/or decode the received signals, as described in more detail below, to allocate uplink bandwidth to subscriber stations 104.
  • base station 102 may receive, among other things, the orthogonal sequences from subscriber stations 104 through a plurality of antennas 103 and may use one or more SDMA techniques to help differentiate two or more of the orthogonal sequences that have collided. Accordingly, transmissions of colliding subscriber stations may be detected for allocation of uplink bandwidth.
  • base station 102 and subscriber stations 104 may communicate using a multicarrier communication technique that uses orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communication signals.
  • the OFDM signals may comprise a plurality of orthogonal subcarriers.
  • base station 102 may be part of a broadband wireless access (BWA) network communication station, such as a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) communication station, although the scope of the invention is not limited in this respect.
  • BWA broadband wireless access
  • WiMax Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
  • Subscriber stations 104 may be BWA network communication stations, such as WiMax subscriber stations, although the scope of the invention is not limited in this respect.
  • base station 102 and subscriber stations 104 may communicate using a multiple access technique, such as orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA).
  • Subscriber stations may be almost any portable wireless communication device, such as a personal digital assistant (PDA), a laptop or portable computer with wireless communication capability, a web tablet, a wireless telephone, a wireless headset, a pager, an instant messaging device, a digital camera, an access point, a television, a medical device (e.g., a heart rate monitor, a blood pressure monitor, etc.), or other device that may receive and/or transmit information wirelessly.
  • PDA personal digital assistant
  • laptop or portable computer with wireless communication capability such as a personal digital assistant (PDA), a laptop or portable computer with wireless communication capability, a web tablet, a wireless telephone, a wireless headset, a pager, an instant messaging device, a digital camera, an access point, a television, a medical device (e.g., a heart rate monitor, a blood pressure monitor, etc.), or other device that may receive
  • base station 102 and subscriber stations 104 may communicate in accordance with specific communication standards, such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards including the IEEE 802.16-2004 and the IEEE 802.16(e) standards for wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs) including variations and evolutions thereof, although the scope of the invention is not limited in this respect as they may also be suitable to operate in accordance with other techniques and standards.
  • IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • WMANs wireless metropolitan area networks
  • base station 102 and subscriber stations 104 may operate in accordance with the provisions of the IEEE 802.16(m) task group.
  • base station 102 and subscriber stations 104 may communicate in accordance with the 3GPP LTE standards.
  • Antennas 103 and 105 may comprise one or more directional or omnidirectional antennas, including, for example, dipole antennas, monopole antennas, patch antennas, loop antennas, microstrip antennas or other types of antennas suitable for transmission of RF signals.
  • a single antenna with multiple apertures may be used instead of two or more antennas.
  • each aperture may be considered a separate antenna.
  • antennas 103 may be effectively separated to take advantage of spatial diversity and the different channel characteristics that may result between each of antennas 103 and each antenna 105.
  • subscriber stations 104 are illustrated with only a single antenna 105, subscriber stations 104 may include more than one antenna.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates uplink and downlink subframes of an uplink bandwidth request process in accordance with some embodiments.
  • Uplink (UL) subframes 202, 206 and 210 may correspond to uplink subframes 109 ( FIG. 1 ), and downlink (DL) subframes 204 and 208 may correspond to downlink subframes 107 ( FIG. 1 ).
  • base station 102 may receive orthogonal codes from subscriber stations 104 ( FIG. 1 ) in uplink subframe 202 and may broadcast the detected orthogonal codes in downlink subframe 204 to indicate when a detected subscriber station may transmit a request for uplink bandwidth in uplink subframe 206.
  • Base station 102 may provide bandwidth allocations to subscriber stations in downlink subframe 208, and subscriber stations 104 ( FIG. 1 ) may transmit uplink data during a portion of uplink subframe 210 as indicated by base station 102 ( FIG. 1 ) in downlink subframe 208.
  • base station 102 ( FIG. 1 ) uses SDMA techniques to detect signals received by colliding subscriber stations in uplink subframe 202.
  • Base station 102 ( FIG. 1 ) may also use SDMA techniques to decode uplink bandwidth request messages concurrently received in uplink subframe 206.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates tiles of a bandwidth request contention channel in accordance with some embodiments.
  • subscriber stations 104 may transmit orthogonal sequences in two or more tiles 302 during uplink subframe 202 ( FIG. 2 ).
  • Each of tiles 302 may comprise a time-frequency block of the bandwidth request contention channel.
  • the two or more tiles utilized by a particular subscriber station may comprise different sets of frequency subcarriers as shown.
  • Base station 102 may detect one or more of subscriber stations 104 ( FIG. 1 ) by applying each of a plurality of the orthogonal sequences to the received orthogonal sequences. In these embodiments, base station 102 ( FIG.
  • subscriber stations 104 may transmit their orthogonal sequences in two or more frequency orthogonal tiles 302 over bandwidth request contention channel during uplink subframe 202 ( FIG. 2 ).
  • the orthogonal sequence transmitted in each of orthogonal tiles 302 is transmitted by a subscriber station on different frequency subcarriers.
  • the first three bits of the orthogonal sequence may be transmitted on one subcarrier, the next three bits may be transmitted on another subcarrier, etc.
  • tiles 302 are illustrated for transmission of only twelve bits, the orthogonal sequences generally include many more bits.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates disjoint pilot patterns in accordance with some embodiments.
  • base station 102 may broadcast a schedule in downlink subframe 204 ( FIG. 2 ) which includes the detected orthogonal codes and an assignment of one of a plurality disjoint pilot patterns 400 to each detected subscriber station 104 ( FIG. 1 ).
  • Each disjoint pilot pattern 400 may be used for subsequent transmission by a detected subscriber station 104 ( FIG. 1 ) of an uplink bandwidth request message in uplink subframe 206 ( FIG. 2 ).
  • Disjoint pilot patterns 400 may comprise orthogonal (i.e., nonoverlapping) pilot subcarriers 402 and non-orthogonal (i.e., overlapping) data subcarriers 404.
  • each pilot subcarrier 402 of disjoint pilot pattern 400A may have a null subcarrier 406 in a corresponding location of disjoint pilot pattern 400B
  • each pilot subcarrier 402 of disjoint pilot pattern 400B may have a null subcarrier 406 in a corresponding location of disjoint pilot pattern 400A.
  • orthogonal sequences transmitted on pilot subcarriers 402 of one of disjoint pilot patterns 400 may be used to help determine the channel response for the transmitting subscriber station as well as to help identify the subscriber station.
  • the use of SDMA processing techniques by base station 102 allows subscriber stations 104 ( FIG. 1 ) to submit requests for uplink bandwidth simultaneously using the same frequency data subcarriers.
  • At least some of subscriber stations 104 use non-orthogonal data subcarriers 404 for transmission of the uplink bandwidth request messages in next uplink subframe 206 ( FIG. 2 ).
  • Base station 102 may receive the uplink bandwidth request messages in next uplink subframe 206 ( FIG. 2 ) from two or more of the subscriber stations may use SDMA techniques to separate the uplink bandwidth request messages sent by the two or more subscriber stations 104 ( FIG. 1 ) on the same data subcarriers 404.
  • uplink bandwidth request messages may be sent using different of disjoint pilot patterns 400.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates only two disjoint pilot patterns 400, embodiments may use more than the two disjoint pilot patterns that are illustrated.
  • each subscriber station 104 may transmit an orthogonal sequence in uplink subframe 202 ( FIG. 2 ) and may transmit an uplink bandwidth request message in uplink subframe 206 ( FIG. 2 ) using one antenna 105 ( FIG. 1 ), although this is not a requirement.
  • Base station 102 receives the uplink bandwidth request messages with two or more of antennas 103 ( FIG. 1 ) so that SDMA techniques may be utilized.
  • the orthogonal sequences may be randomly selected by subscriber stations 104 prior to their transmission in uplink subframe 202.
  • subscriber stations 104 transmit the randomly selected orthogonal sequences in two or more tiles 302 during uplink subframe 202 to initiate a request for uplink bandwidth.
  • subscriber stations 104 may refrain from transmitting non-orthogonal codes or partially orthogonal codes, such as code-division multiple access (CDMA) codes, to base station 102 over the bandwidth request contention channel to initiate a request for uplink bandwidth.
  • CDMA code-division multiple access
  • bandwidth requests by subscriber stations include non-orthogonal codes or partially orthogonal codes, such as CDMA codes, modulated on a significant portion of subcarriers of one OFDM symbol.
  • each subscriber station 104 may select two or more nonoverlapping tiles 302 for transmission of an orthogonal sequence on the bandwidth request contention channel.
  • the tiles may be randomly selected and a subscriber station 104 may end up selecting tiles that partially or fully overlap with the tiles selected by other subscriber stations.
  • SDMA techniques by base station 102 helps the different orthogonal codes to be detected.
  • SDMA when is utilized for bandwidth requests, allows two or more subscriber stations 104 to transmit simultaneously. In contrast, when a collision occurs in conventional bandwidth request schemes, neither of the subscriber stations are detected.
  • CDMA codes are used to help differentiate subscriber stations.
  • Any frequency offset may be corrected using downlink common pilot or preamble and the time offset is bounded by periodical ranging.
  • the orthogonal sequence may be sent in multiple tiles 302.
  • Each tile 302 is a time-frequency resource block and may comprise subcarriers adjacent in time and frequency.
  • the orthogonal sequence transmitted in each of the tiles 302 may be the same, although different sequences may be used.
  • the channel response over an entire tile 302 varies little and is treated as constant over that tile.
  • each subscriber station 104 randomly selects one out of the M sequences and transmits the selected sequence on the bandwidth request contention channel that are formed by tiles 302.
  • base station 102 may use four receive antennas 103 to receive sequences from two subscriber stations 104 that each use one transmit antenna 105.
  • y i a, i t ( t ) represents the received signal at a base station antenna i a at time i t ;
  • h i a, j a ( t ) represents the channel response from subscriber j a 's transmit
  • b i,M represents the orthogonal sequence sent by subscriber i; and n i a, i t ( t ) represents the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) noise at the base station antenna i a at time i t .
  • the original channel H ( t ) may be treated as the transmitted data and the original data B as the channel carrying the virtual data H ( t ). All possible sequences B ⁇ s may be tried to match against the received signals Y ( t ). The sequence with the best fit may be selected.
  • the noise term N ( t ) is not amplified in Equation (2) because B ⁇ consists of unit vectors.
  • Equation (2) may be used to detect subscriber stations 104 even when two subscriber stations 104 transmit the same sequences because the use of SDMA can differentiate the two subscriber stations 104 based on the difference of their spatial channels.
  • base station 102 may schedule the actual submission of the bandwidth request and broadcast the schedule in downlink subframe 204.
  • the bandwidth request submitted by subscriber stations 104 in uplink subframe 206 may be submitted using SDMA.
  • the SDMA processing techniques are extended for bandwidth requests and base station 102 may allocate time-frequency subchannels for two or more detected subscriber stations 104 to transmit on the same subchannels and may assign two disjoint pilot patterns 400A and 400B to the two detected subscriber stations 104 so that base station 102 may estimate the channel responses from each of the two subscriber stations 104.
  • base station 102 may assign a different one of disjoint pilot patterns 400 to the two detected subscriber stations 104.
  • the two detected subscriber stations 104 may submit their bandwidth requests over the same subchannels in uplink subframe 206.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates uplink and downlink subframes of an uplink bandwidth request process in accordance with some alternate embodiments.
  • Uplink (UL) subframes 506 and 510 may correspond to uplink subframes 109 ( FIG. 1 ), and downlink (DL) subframe 508 may correspond to one of downlink subframes 107 ( FIG. 1 ).
  • uplink bandwidth request messages may be received on the bandwidth request contention channel from one or more subscriber stations 104 ( FIG. 1 ) in uplink subframe 506.
  • the uplink bandwidth request messages may be generated by subscriber stations 104 ( FIG. 1 ) by modulating pilot subcarriers of a randomly selected disjoint pilot pattern 400 ( FIG. 4 ) with a randomly selected orthogonal sequence. Allocations of uplink bandwidth may be provided to subscriber stations 104 ( FIG. 1 ) in downlink subframe 508 when the uplink bandwidth request messages are successfully detected and decoded.
  • the first three steps of the uplink bandwidth request process of FIG. 2 are combined and thus, bandwidth can be allocated quicker, with less bandwidth consumption, and with reduced latency.
  • base station 102 may receive the uplink bandwidth request messages through two or more antennas 103 ( FIG. 1 ) and may apply SDMA techniques to determine channel responses based on the orthogonal sequences to detect and decode the uplink bandwidth request messages.
  • the uplink bandwidth request messages may be received on the bandwidth request contention channel in uplink subframe 506.
  • subscriber stations 104 may randomly select one of a plurality of disjoint pilot patterns, such as one of disjoint pilot patterns 400 ( FIG. 4 ), and one of a plurality of orthogonal sequences prior to transmitting the uplink bandwidth request messages.
  • Data subcarriers 404 may be modulated by subscriber stations 104 ( FIG. 1 ) with an uplink bandwidth request data element.
  • base station 102 FIG. 1
  • base station 102 may detect the uplink bandwidth request using maximum ratio combining (MRC) and may allocate uplink bandwidth for an uplink data transmission in next downlink subframe 508 to the one detected subscriber station.
  • MRC maximum ratio combining
  • base station 102 may detect and decode the uplink bandwidth requests using a spatial demultiplexing technique.
  • Base station 102 may indicate an allocation of uplink bandwidth for an uplink data transmission to each of the detected subscriber stations 104 in next downlink subframe 508.
  • uplink bandwidth can be allocated in a two-step process, unlike convention processes using CDMA codes that require four or more steps.
  • the spatial demultiplexing technique may include either a minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation technique or a zero-forcing technique, although the scope of the embodiments is not limited in this respect.
  • MMSE minimum mean square error
  • base station 102 may attempt to detect and decode at least one of the uplink bandwidth requests (e.g., with a higher error rate) using a spatial demultiplexing technique (e.g., MMSE or zero forcing). Base station 102 may also allocate uplink bandwidth for an uplink data transmission to at least one of the subscriber stations when at least one subscriber station was successfully detected. In these embodiments, the colliding uplink bandwidth request messages may be received on the bandwidth request contention channel in uplink subframe 506.
  • a spatial demultiplexing technique e.g., MMSE or zero forcing
  • base station 102 may refrain from allocating bandwidth for an uplink data transmission to either of the two subscriber stations 104 when the uplink bandwidth requests are unable to be detected and/or decoded. In these embodiments, the base station 102 may be unable to detect either of the uplink bandwidth requests received on the bandwidth request contention channel in uplink subframe 506 since the two subscriber stations 104 have selected the same disjoint pilot pattern and the same orthogonal sequences. Accordingly, base station 102 is unable to provide a bandwidth allocation in next downlink subframe 508.
  • the base station 102 is unable to broadcast a detected sequence to allocate a transmission resource to a subscriber station 104 for submission of a contention-free uplink bandwidth request, as in the uplink bandwidth request process of FIG. 2 .
  • subscriber stations 104 may randomly select one of two disjoint pilot patterns 400 and one of two orthogonal sequences for transmission of uplink bandwidth request messages.
  • base station 102 may attempt to detect one or more of the orthogonal sequences and the pilot patterns to detect one or more subscriber stations 104.
  • Base station 102 may also broadcast in a downlink subframe, such as downlink subframe 204 ( FIG. 2 ), the one or more detected orthogonal sequences and pilot patterns to allocate a transmission resource for each detected subscriber station 104.
  • the transmission resource is to be used by the detected subscriber stations 104 to retransmit a contention-free bandwidth request message.
  • base station 102 may only be able to detect one or more subscriber stations 104, but is likely to be unable to decode the uplink bandwidth request messages. Thus, the detected subscriber stations 104 may be allocated a transmission resource to retransmit an uplink bandwidth request message in a next uplink subframe.
  • each subscriber station 104 may include PHY layer circuitry and signal processing circuitry to perform the operations described herein.
  • the signal processing circuitry may randomly select one of disjoint pilot patterns 400 and one the orthogonal sequences.
  • the PHY layer circuitry may be configured to transmit an uplink bandwidth request message on the bandwidth request contention channel.
  • the PHY layer circuitry may generate the uplink bandwidth request messages by modulating pilot subcarriers of the randomly selected disjoint pilot pattern 400 with the randomly selected orthogonal sequence.
  • base station 102 is illustrated as having several separate functional elements, one or more of the functional elements may be combined and may be implemented by combinations of software-configured elements, such as processing elements including digital signal processors (DSPs), and/or other hardware elements.
  • DSPs digital signal processors
  • some elements may comprise one or more microprocessors, DSPs, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) and combinations of various hardware and logic circuitry for performing at least the functions described herein.
  • the functional elements of base station 102 may refer to one or more processes operating on one or more processing elements.
  • a computing device includes one or more processing elements coupled with computer-readable memory that may be volatile or non-volatile memory or a combination thereof.
  • Embodiments may be implemented in one or a combination of hardware, firmware and software. Embodiments may also be implemented as instructions stored on a computer-readable medium, which may be read and executed by at least one processor to perform the operations described herein.
  • a computer-readable medium may include any mechanism for storing or transmitting information in a form readable by a machine (e.g., a computer).
  • a computer-readable medium may include read-only memory (ROM), random-access memory (RAM), magnetic disk storage media, optical storage media, flash-memory devices, and others.

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